The Strange Disappearance of Susan Walsh
Unexplained : True Tales of Unexplained Mysteries with Bestselling Author Steph Young
Steph Young
4.3 • 613 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Who's behind this lady's disappearance? |
| 0:16.3 | Russian gangsters, the CIA, or was it human sacrifice? |
| 0:20.7 | Susan Walsh was born in 1960. |
| 0:23.6 | She attended William Patterson University where she studied English and writing, |
| 0:27.8 | and she worked at the college newspaper. |
| 0:29.9 | To help pay for her tuition, she had also begun working as a stripper, |
| 0:34.1 | and it was said that she took drugs during her time at college, |
| 0:36.8 | although she did graduate with a bachelor's degree in 1988, and from there she tried to make it as a writer. |
| 0:43.3 | Sometimes she got freelance gigs writing for technical and business magazines, but her career did not sore. |
| 0:50.3 | Later, she managed to get work with Screw Magazine, which was described as a weekly pornographic |
| 0:55.8 | tabloid-style publication. |
| 0:58.1 | In 1984, she married Mark Walsh, the brother of the Eagles band member Joe Walsh. |
| 1:03.7 | They had a son together in 1985, called David. |
| 1:07.3 | When their relationship disintegrated, they began to live separately, and at the time of her unexplained disappearance, her husband lived in an apartment directly below Susan's in Nutley, New Jersey. |
| 1:20.0 | Susan was enrolled at New York University where she was taking a master's degree, and she was still working as a stripper to make ends meet, while also trying |
| 1:28.3 | to get writing gigs. She'd recently lost sobriety after being free of drinking drugs for 11 years. |
| 1:34.4 | It was July the 16th, 1996, when Susan vanished. That day, she told her living boyfriend |
| 1:40.7 | Christian, who claimed to be a vampire, so she was just popping out to make a phone call. |
| 1:46.3 | In those days, there were no mobile phones, and she had a pager for people to reach her on. |
| 1:51.3 | She took her son downstairs to leave him in the care of her ex-husband, and left the apartment |
| 1:55.8 | building to use one of the phone boxes down the road. She never returned. The European independent said people |
| 2:03.1 | always used to spot Susan Walsh on the avenue with her sandals and sheet of blonde hair. She would |
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